Sex advice with Suzi Godson: Act of kissing is more important to women

Q. My boyfriend doesn’t really kiss during sex. He does during foreplay, but when we start penetrative sex the kissing stops. I love kissing during sex, but he pulls away. I don’t know what to do about it. I don’t want to force him, but I like the connection of kissing.

An extensive body of research has investigated the significance of kissing and virtually all of it concludes that women like kissing more than men do.

Men are happy to participate in tonsil hockey if they think that it will lead to sex, but they rate kissing as “decreasing in importance” over the duration of a relationship.